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The poll released on Thursday found that 43 percent of people who identified as Democrats want impeachment to be a top priority for Congress. That goal was second in priority only to healthcare, which played a major role in Democratic campaigns’ closing arguments before Tuesday’s elections.... ReutersNewly emboldened Democrats want healthcare protected - and Trump impeached: Reuters/Ipsos poll also If the two parties cannot reach a funding deal, there would be a partial government...

And, of course, in 2016 three million more voters cast their votes for Democratic than for Republican Senate candidates. And the 2018 House vote went Democratic by 9.2 percentage point:: FiveThirtyEight: Significant Digits For Wednesday, November 7, 2018l: "Voters cast 44.7 million votes for Democratic Senate candidates and 32.9 million votes for Republican Senate candidates... 57 percent of Senate votes went for Democrats... Another reason that America is a republic rather than a...

No, this won’t be on the table until 2021 at the earliest. But the party’s candidates need to offer some solutions. Bloomberg OpinionThe Democrats’ Options for Repealing the Trump Tax Cut Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders

POTUS as troll-in-chief.The WeekJon Stewart expertly explains how Trump punks the media

Backgrounder. A historical view dissension, divisiveness and civil war in the US.The American ConservativeWe Were Made for Civil War Michael Vlahos | professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the US Naval War College, adjunct faculty member, Global Security Studies program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Sciences , former Director of the Security Studies Program at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies, and formerly with Johns Hopkins University...

The Trump White House research team have issued a very strange report. It’s called “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism,”. It purports to prove that ‘socialism’ and ‘socialist’ policies would be damaging to Americans because the ‘opportunity costs’ of socialism compared to capitalism are so much higher. What is strange and rather amusing is that the White House advisers to Trump deem it necessary to explain to Americans the failures of ‘socialism’ in 2018. But when you delve into the...

“I’ve never seen anything like this, but I hope it never happens again,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told BuzzFeed News on Thursday. I have an inkling that this is just the beginning."Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." — William Congreve As a matter of fact, it is an extension of the ongoing culture and race wars that are turning into a civil war, soft so far. Civil wars are so uncivil.And a battle between the sexes is the worst of all worlds. Turning ugly. You really don't...

Trump's opposition still does not get that it is howling at the diversion while the real action is being accomplished with only a minimal effort to stop it. Who is the fool in this situation? Bingo. OpEdNewsWhy Trump Is Succeeding (and will continue to do so) Bear Kosik

We need to challenge the logic of capital. Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act only further entrenches it.... JacobinAccountable Capitalism or Democratic Socialism? Stephen Maher | PhD candidate at York University in Toronto

The recovery has since picked up speed, so the deficit should be falling especially fast right now. Unfortunately, the FRED data site does not have updated figures, but the deficit is no longer falling. Indeed it’s exploding, expected to reach $1.1 trillion in 2019. Nothing like this has ever happened in America during a period of peace and prosperity. There is such a firehose of spending that Washington is hardly able to shovel dollars out the door as fast as they are being...